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At the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering,1 Edsger W. Dijkstra remarked that he found his position, as a teacher, analogous to that of a teacher of composition at a school of music. This paper wishes to pursue this analogy in greater detail. In particular, the role of style in computer science education is assessed in terms of the corresponding role it plays in music education.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 3
        Proceedings of the 6th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
        July 1976
        146 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/952991
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          SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          September 1976
          154 pages
          ISBN:9781450374453
          DOI:10.1145/800144

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